Petrochemicals r-PET adipic-acid – Can the car help the environment with the recycling of plastic? 07-08-2023
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
- Polymers : PET – r-PET – Filament grade semidull chips -Filament grade bright chips – Ny6 – My66 – PP
- Feedstocks : PX – PTA – MEG – CPL – Adipic Acid – Benzene – ACN – Ethylene – Phenol – Naphtha
- Textile : Polyester POY – DTY – FDY – PSF – Recycled Polyester POY – Nylon POY – DTY – FDY Spandex 20-30-40 -Viscose Staple Fiber VSF Acrylic Staple Fiber
| Polyestertime | |||
| ITEM | 31/07/2023 | 07/08/2023 | +/- |
| Bottle grade PET chips domestic market | 7,200 yuan/ton | 7,050 yuan/ton | -150 |
| Bottle grade PET chips export market | 915 $/ton | 905 $/ton | -10 |
| Filament grade Semidull chips domestic market | 6,900 yuan/ton | 6,800 yuan/ton | -100 |
| Filament grade Bright chips domestic market | 6,920 yuan/ton | 6,830 yuan/ton | -90 |
| Pure Terephthalic Acid PTA domestic market | 6,035 yuan/ton | 5,810 yuan/ton | -225 |
| Pure Terephthalic Acid PTA export market | 800 $/ton | 800 $/ton | – |
| Monoethyleneglycol MEG domestic market | 4,130 yuan/ton | 3,995 yuan/ton | -135 |
| Monoethyleneglycol MEG export market | 484 $/ton | 467 $/ton | -17 |
| Paraxylene PX FOB Taiwan market
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
1,097 $/ton | 1,055 $/ton |
-42 |
| Paraxylene PX FOB Korea market | 1,074 $/ton | 1,032 $/ton | -42 |
| Paraxylene PX FOB EU market | 1,190 $/ton | 1,200 $/ton | +10 |
| Polyester filament POY 150D/48F domestic market | 7,680 yuan/ton | 7,670 yuan/ton |
-10 |
| Recycled Polyester filament POY domestic market | 7,250 yuan/ton | 7,350 yuan/ton | +100 |
| Polyester filament DTY 150D/48 F domestic market | 9,225 yuan/ton | 9,225 yuan/ton | – |
| Polyester filament FDY 68D24F
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
8,800 yuan/ton | 8,800 yuan/ton | – |
| Polyester filament FDY 150D/96F domestic market | 8,350 yuan/ton | 8,350 yuan/ton | – |
| Polyester staple fiber 1.4D 38mm domestic market | 7,500 yuan/ton | 7,350 yuan/ton | -150 |
| Caprolactam CPL domestic market | 12,850 yuan/ton | 13,150 yuan/ton |
+300 |
| Caprolactam CPL overseas market | 1,550 $/ton | 1,550 $/ton | – |
| Nylon 6 chips overseas market | 1,740 $/ton | 1,740 $/ton | – |
| Nylon 6 chips conventional spinning domestic market | 13,400 yuan/ton | 13,700 yuan/ton | +300 |
| Nylon 6 chips high speed spinning domestic market
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
14,000 yuan/ton | 14,500 yuan/ton | +500 |
| Nylon 6.6 chips domestic market | 18,000 yuan/ton | 18,000 yuan/ton | – |
| Nylon6 Filament POY 86D/24F domestic market | 16,100 yuan/ton | 16,600 yuan/ton | +500 |
| Nylon6 Filament DTY 70D/24F domestic market | 18,350 yuan/ton | 18,800 yuan/ton- | +450 |
| Nylon6 Filament FDY 70D/24F | 16,800 yuan/ton | 17,500 yuan/ton | +700 |
| Spandex 20D domestic market
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
36,500 yuan/ton | 36,500 yuan/ton | – |
| Spandex 30D domestic market | 35,000 yuan/ton | 35,000 yuan/ton | – |
| Spandex 40D domestic market | 31,500 yuan/ton | 31,500 yuan/ton | – |
| Adipic Acid domestic market | 9,500 yuan/ton | 9,800 yuan/ton | +300 |
| Benzene domestic market
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
7,465 yuan/ton | 7,750 yuan/ton | +285 |
| Benzene overseas market | 873 $/ton | 905 $/ton | +32 |
| Ethylene South East market | 770 $/ton | 810 $/ton | +40 |
| Ethylene NWE market | 644 $/ton | 620 $/ton | -24 |
| Acrylonitrile ACN domestic market
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
7,900 yuan/ton | 8,400 yuan/ton | +500 |
| Acrylonitrile ACN overseas market | 1,200 $/ton | 1,200 $/ton | – |
| Acrylic staple fiber ASF domestic market | 13,600 yuan/ton | 13,600 yuan/ton | – |
| Viscose Staple Fiber VSF domestic market | 12,600 yuan/ton | 12,500 yuan/ton | -100 |
| PP Powder domestic market
Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid |
7,100 yuan/ton | 7,200 yuan/ton | +100 |
| Naphtha overseas market | 639 $/ton | 653 $/ton | +14 |
| Phenol domestic market | 8,225 yuan/ton | 8,100 yuan/ton | -125 |
r-PET high end eco-friendly chips =7,950 yuan/ton — 7,750 yuan/ton -200
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Toray to move into battery separator business
Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc., a South Korea-based producer of chemical materials and technology products, is entering the battery separator film business through the acquisition of Toray Battery Separator Film Korea (Toray BSF Korea), said Kedglobal.
The company announced on Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire a 70% stake of Toray BSF Korea, which is currently owned by Toray Industries of Japan.
Located in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province, Toray BSF Korea is a specialized manufacturer of separators, one of the four key materials for batteries, and a core production base for Japan’s Toray. Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
The company has a diverse product portfolio for electric vehicles, electronic devices, industrial components and energy storage, supplying separators to battery manufacturers both domestically and internationally.
Toray Advanced Materials has a range of advanced materials businesses related to electric vehicles and next-generation mobility, including specialty films for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) in electric vehicles, aramid for motor insulation and nonwoven fabrics for electric vehicle sound absorption.
We remind, Toray Advanced Materials Korea (TAK) has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resin by 5,000 tons. The expansion will take place at the Gunsan plant located in Saemangeum Industrial Complex and is set to be completed by 2024, bringing TAK’s total annual capacity to 13,600 tons, the largest in South Korea. TAK will also raise its capacity for sodium sulfide, the main raw material for PPS resin, to 4,800 tons per year. Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
How the Auto Industry Is Embracing Plastic Recycling
The dual needs to reduce the consumption of new resources in creating plastic products and to reduce the eventual creation of plastic waste when products have been used drive the pursuit of recycled materials in the auto industry.
Plastics are pervasive in modern vehicles, creating the opportunity for significant reuse of plastic. We’ve seen this in the case of the Ford Bronco Sport, which employs recycled plastic from recovered fishing nets in its wiring harness clips. The aim is to expand use of the material into other applications such as engine covers. The ultimate potential is for as much as 700 lbs. of plastic per vehicle to be created from recycled materials, according to Ford technical expert Alper Kiziltas, with about 10 percent of that eligible to be made using the recycled fishing net material. Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
Reusing Wreckage
Some more visible applications of recycled plastics in new automotive parts are in the cars’ interiors, where consumers will see the materials during every drive. Audi has partnered with LyondellBasell, the world’s largest producer of polymer products, to produce plastic seat belt buckle covers for the Q8 e-tron EV using plastic recovered from parts of crashed Audis.
“As part of the PlasticLoop project, we are working with Audi to establish an innovative closed-loop process, recycling plastic automotive parts for use in new vehicles,” said Erik Licht, LyondellBasell Advanced Polymer Solutions New Business Development Director. “For the first time, we are using chemical recycling to recycle mixed automotive plastic waste into plastic granulate for automotive interior applications,” he said. “The plastic granulate is then used in the production of the seatbelt buckle covers for the Audi Q8 e-tron.”
“We want to use secondary material wherever it is technically possible, ecologically feasible, and of course, environmentally friendly,” said Philip Eder, project manager for circular economy procurement strategy at Audi.
“Recycling is not that easy, because as you can imagine, if something is mixed up, it is not that easy to separate it again.” Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
PET Water Bottles
The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic used in plastic bottles is a more homogenous source of post-consumer plastic that Audi is also using. The company uses that PET in combination with residual textiles, and fabric selvages recovered from manufacturing plants to create Kaskade, a new fabric material that provides the soft surface and three-dimensional texture of natural fiber materials such as wool.
Kaskade cannot be made from entirely recycled materials, but the company strives to maximize the recycled portion of the material mix, reports Christine Maier of Audi Design. “We used only as much new polyester and as many new resources as was technically necessary,” she said. “The result is a fabric that is reminiscent of wool and natural fibers, and has a very pleasant feel.”
The recovered selvage fabric comes from a plant making automotive products, so the material is already automotive-grade. Audi separates these into black and white components, using them to create an anthracite-colored blend that requires no additional dye. “We leave out another chemical process, which is better for the environment,” noted Maier. Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
Audi said that the company strives to procure well-sorted PET waste that is of high purity and then they process to avoid any minor impurities in the filament process. This could result in fiber inhomogeneity and potentially make the fabric unattractive. An advantage of using recycled PET is that it is abundant, which is an important consideration for an industry still bedeviled by supply headaches.
Finding the Right Mix
The selvage material, PET, and new polyester combine to create new yarn that is used to make the Kaskade seat cover fabric. The final product contains 15 percent selvage material, 35 percent PET, and 50 percent new polyester. “We performed a lot of tests to see how high the portion of selvages can be while ensuring the fabric still looks flawless,” Maier explained.
Audi started making seat covers using recycled materials for the fourth-generation A3. Those seat covers contain as much as 89 percent recycled material, using plastic from 45 1.5-liter PET plastic bottles. Then there are the additional 62 PET bottles that are recycled for the car’s carpet. Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
The carpeting and floor mats in the Audi e-tron GT are made of Econyl – a material that consists of 100 percent recycled nylon fibers from production waste, fabric and carpet scraps, or old fishing nets.
Audi acknowledges that one of the hurdles en route to a circular economy is that the cost of these recycled materials is higher than for virgin materials. Energy consumption in the process is about the same as for virgin materials, so efficiency is not an obstacle, according to the company.
Faurecia’s Seat for the Planet
Auto industry supplier Faurecia aims to use recycled materials throughout the entire seat and to make those same materials easier to separate at the seat’s end-of-life for future reuse and recycling. The company’s “Seat for the Planet” is a project that has created a lightweight seat that is about 15 percent lighter than a conventional seat
It is made from ten modules each made entirely of a single material, made from bio-sourced or recycled materials, or from materials that are compatible for recycling, according to project manager Marthin Frétigné. Petrochemicals r-pet adipic-acid
Conventional seats are made using between 100 and 150 separate parts. The polyurethane used in seat cushions is especially challenging to replace with something earth-friendly. “This material performs well but is very difficult to recycle” said Frétigné. “So we had to replace it with a technical solution called Auraloop, incorporating high-performance PET combined with a new transformation process”.
